The Goblins of Bellwater by Molly Ringle

Author:Molly Ringle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Central Avenue Publishing
Published: 2017-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

LIVY HAD LEFT ON HER OWN, UNDER KIT’S INSTRUCTIONS. GRADY AND SKYE STAYED BEHIND WITH KIT, WHO DRAGGED out the box of goblin-related files and sat at the kitchen island with it, digging through notebooks and scowling.

Grady remained seated on his bed, with Skye huddled under his arm, and examined the ghoulish picture that had finally crystallized into focus in his mind.

Desperate words clogged his throat like a logjam. He would have spoken if he could have, lots of times. He would have told Kit and Livy how the woods had been calling to him too, how this all wasn’t exactly a surprise because the eerie truth had been sneaking up on his brain ever since he met Skye. After all, for the past couple of weeks—and he wouldn’t tell them this part, but—he’d been having various kinds of sex with her daily, out there in the woods, despite drizzle and chill, despite having to lie on damp moss or prop themselves against muddy trees. He could have done all this with her in her room, so why had they kept at it that way instead? The forest must have drawn them, made them unable to resist. He had worked that out already, bizarre though it was, though he didn’t know why it was happening.

Mostly, he wished he could tell Kit he must be wrong about Grady being “protected,” because the goblins had fucking gotten him anyway.

By now Grady couldn’t speak of it either. His words had been getting locked down inside him more and more over the past few days, and now that he was dying to speak, he couldn’t. About other topics, he could still talk more freely than Skye could, but not about that.

Grady glanced at her, and their eyes held for a long moment. The curse was spreading in him, and he could tell she knew it. Had known it from the first day. Her gaze overflowed with sorrow, as it always did when she looked at him, and now he fully understood why.

He ought to be furious at her for doing this to him. But he couldn’t be. Help me had been her first words to him; she had been drowning, casting out for anyone’s hand, and Grady’s happened to be available. He couldn’t regret going to her. She was his mate and he never wanted to be separated from her, and soon he would never have to be, and that, at least, was a comfort.

But everything else in his human life—his parents, siblings, hometown; the career he might have had; the man he might have been—for all that, about to be swept into the trash heap of history, he felt immense sadness. Because he was still human, not a gleeful, callous goblin. Yet.

Skye stirred, slipped out of his grasp, and walked across to the bathroom.

As soon as the bathroom door shut, Kit glanced over at Grady. “You’re quiet.”

Grady let his hands dangle over his knees. “Yeah.”

“I get it. I was pretty freaked when I first found out too.

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